• The bill to move local elections to the fall ballot is still unnecessary and counterproductive.
It’s back. The silly bill that surfaced a year ago has surfaced again in the Kansas Legislature. The political machine in northeast Kansas is pushing SB171, a proposal that would change city and school board elections from April to November. The alleged goal of the bill is to increase voter participation by having local elections included on the same ballot as federal, state and county offices. It also would require people running for city offices and school boards to stipulate their party affiliation.
We said this last year and we’ll say it again: This passage of... more»

Uncle Glen died last week. My dad (Wayne) and his brothers, Glen and Dale, all finished World War II as sergeants of various types.
Dale and Glen were in the Battle of the Bulge, and on into Germany. Dad was in the landing against the Vichy French in North Africa, was in Rommel’s defeat, the invasion of Sicily, the landing on Anzio on up to the Italian-Austrian border.
All three men received multiple combat decorations.
I’m sure I know more about Dad because I lived with him for a while.
Their fourth brother, Uncle Noel, was enough younger that he was in the Korean War.
Their sister,... more»